India Women Most Wicketkeeper Dismissals: International Records

Richa Ghosh has taken 123 dismissals as India's wicketkeeper: 45 in one-day internationals and 78 in Twenty20 internationals, none in Tests. Anju Jain, who kept from 1993 to 2005, has 104 — 81 in one-day internationals and 23 in Tests. Between them they cover the two ends of India women's keeping history and almost nothing in the middle.

The figure that actually distinguishes Indian women's keeping is not the total but the stumping share. Tania Bhatia took 45 stumpings in 53 Twenty20 international innings, two-thirds of her dismissals; Sushma Verma's share in the same format is three in four; Anju Jain's in one-day cricket was 63 per cent. India have picked keepers to stand up to spin bowling for fifty years, and the record reads like it.

Richa Ghosh breaks that pattern. Nine of her 45 one-day dismissals are stumpings, a fifth of the total, which is the lowest share of any India keeper with 40 dismissals in the format — a consequence of standing back to Renuka Singh and Pooja Vastrakar more often than her predecessors stood back to anyone.

The all-format keeping ledger

Dismissals taken while keeping wicket. Qualification: 35 or more.

Keeper	Span	Test	ODI	T20I	Total
Richa Ghosh	2020-2026	0	45	78	123
Anju Jain	1993-2005	23	81	0	104
Tania Bhatia	2018-2022	4	27	68	99
Sulakshana Naik	2002-2013	3	60	31	94
Karuna Jain	2004-2014	17	58	12	87
Sushma Verma	2013-2021	5	49	25	79
Yastika Bhatia	2021-2026	7	18	13	38

Anju Jain's 104 came from 79 international innings behind the stumps, a rate of 1.32 dismissals per innings. Richa Ghosh's 123 come from 141, at 0.87.

Tania Bhatia's 99 in 74 innings is a shade better still at 1.34, the highest rate on the page, and she stopped playing for India in 2022. Her Twenty20 figures are the most concentrated keeping record India women have: 68 dismissals in 53 innings.

Sulakshana Naik and Karuna Jain overlapped through the late 2000s and split the job between them, which is why neither total is larger. Between 2006 and 2013 those two and Anagha Deshpande kept in almost every match India played.

Twenty20 internationals: eight keepers, and 45 stumpings from one

Keeper	Span	Inns	Dismissals	Catches	Stumpings	Stumping share	Max in an innings
Richa Ghosh	2020-2026	87	78	41	37	47%	4
Tania Bhatia	2018-2022	53	68	23	45	66%	4
Sulakshana Naik	2006-2012	31	31	10	21	68%	4
Sushma Verma	2013-2016	19	25	6	19	76%	4
Yastika Bhatia	2021-2026	24	13	5	8	62%	2
Karuna Jain	2014-2014	9	12	4	8	67%	4
SLJ Lobatto	2011-2011	3	7	0	7	100%	3
Uma Chetry	2024-2024	7	4	3	1	25%	1

Eight keepers have kept for India in 225 Twenty20 internationals, and one of them did it three times. SLJ Lobatto's record is the oddest single entry in India's women's fielding history: three innings in 2011, seven dismissals, every one of them a stumping, including three in an innings.

Sushma Verma's 76 per cent stumping share across nineteen innings is the highest of the keepers with a real sample. Six catches and nineteen stumpings is a record that only happens if you stand up to the wicket almost every ball, which is what a side bowling Poonam Yadav, Ekta Bisht and Rajeshwari Gayakwad in the middle overs asks for.

Karuna Jain's nine innings all fell in a single year, 2014, eight years after her one-day debut, and she took twelve dismissals in them. Uma Chetry's seven innings in 2024 produced three catches and one stumping — the only keeper on the list whose catches outnumber her stumpings.

One-day internationals

Keeper	Span	Inns	Dismissals	Catches	Stumpings	Stumping share	Max in an innings
Anju Jain	1993-2005	65	81	30	51	63%	5
Sulakshana Naik	2002-2013	45	60	28	32	53%	5
Karuna Jain	2004-2014	44	58	32	26	45%	5
Sushma Verma	2014-2021	43	49	28	21	43%	4
Richa Ghosh	2021-2026	54	45	36	9	20%	5
Anagha Deshpande	2008-2014	23	30	11	19	63%	4
Tania Bhatia	2018-2022	19	27	18	9	33%	3
Yastika Bhatia	2021-2024	28	18	8	10	56%	3

Anju Jain's 51 one-day stumpings are the most by any India keeper in any format, and 81 dismissals from 65 innings the highest one-day total. She kept to Neetu David, Purnima Rau and Diana Marathe for most of a decade, and the stumping column is those three bowlers as much as it is her.

The stumping share falls steadily down the modern half of the table: 63 per cent for Anju Jain, 53 for Naik, 45 for Karuna Jain, 43 for Sushma Verma, 20 for Richa Ghosh. Yastika Bhatia's 56 per cent interrupts the trend and comes from the smallest sample.

Richa Ghosh's 36 catches from 54 innings is the highest catch count by an India keeper in the format, and the nine stumpings beside it are fewer than five other keepers managed in fewer innings. She keeps to a bowling attack with two frontline seamers, which India women did not have before 2021.

Tests: ten keepers in fifty years

Keeper	Span	Mat	Inns	Dismissals	Catches	Stumpings
Anju Jain	1995-2003	8	14	23	15	8
Karuna Jain	2005-2014	5	9	17	14	3
Fowzieh Khalili	1976-1977	8	13	15	5	10
Nutan Jogalekar	1984-1985	5	9	13	4	9
M Singhal	1986-1991	6	12	8	5	3
Yastika Bhatia	2021-2026	4	8	7	7	0
Sushma Verma	2014-2014	1	2	5	4	1
Tania Bhatia	2021-2021	1	2	4	4	0
V Kalpana	1986-1991	3	6	4	1	3
Sulakshana Naik	2002-2006	2	4	3	1	2

Fowzieh Khalili kept in India's first eight Tests, in 1976 and 1977, and took ten stumpings in thirteen innings — two-thirds of her dismissals, in an attack built around Diana Edulji, Shubhangi Kulkarni and S Chakraborty. Nutan Jogalekar's nine stumpings in nine innings across 1984 and 1985 is the same story a decade later.

Then it stops. Yastika Bhatia and Tania Bhatia have eleven Test dismissals between them and not one stumping, across ten innings in the 2020s. India's Test attack still leans heavily on Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana, and yet the stumping has all but disappeared from the format.

Anju Jain's 23 from fourteen innings is the highest total and the best rate: 1.64 dismissals per innings, which would lead any of the three tables on this page.

Stumpings versus catches: the Indian signature

Format	India keepers' catches	Stumpings	Stumping share
Test	60	39	39%
ODI	191	177	48%
T20I	92	146	61%

Read across the three rows and the pattern is the opposite of what most countries show. In men's cricket the stumping is a curiosity; in India women's Twenty20 internationals it accounts for more dismissals than the catch does.

The explanation is the bowling. India women have produced spinners in bulk for fifty years — the India women most wickets list has five spinners in its top six — and a keeper standing up to left-arm spin and leg-spin for sixteen of twenty overs will take stumpings. It is the same national habit the spin bowling tradition page traces through the men's game.

The Test row is the exception, and it is an exception of sample size rather than of method: 99 keeping dismissals in 43 matches across fifty years, with the stumpings concentrated in the 1970s and 1980s.

Five in an innings

Four India keepers have taken five dismissals in a one-day international innings: Anju Jain, Sulakshana Naik, Karuna Jain and Richa Ghosh. No India keeper has taken more than four in a Twenty20 international, and five have managed four — Ghosh, Tania Bhatia, Naik, Sushma Verma and Karuna Jain.

Set against the outfielders, the difference is stark: no India woman fielding in the ring has taken more than three catches in a one-day innings, and that comparison is drawn out on the India women most catches page.

What the keeping record shows

It shows that India women have had six keepers of substance in fifty years and very little competition between them at any one time. Anju Jain, Sulakshana Naik, Karuna Jain, Sushma Verma, Tania Bhatia and Richa Ghosh account for almost every keeping dismissal in the record, and their careers barely overlap.

It shows a genuine change of method after 2020. Ghosh's low stumping share is not a weakness — it reflects a bowling attack that now contains real pace, and a keeper picked as much for batting at five as for what she does with the gloves. Her batting sits on the India women most sixes list, where she has one of the highest six rates of any India woman.

And it shows how thin the Test record is. Ten keepers, 43 matches, 99 dismissals: less than three years of one-day cricket at the current rate. How that came about is set out on the India women's cricket history page and the India women's national team history page, with the domestic competitions that produce keepers on the women's domestic cricket page and the Women's Premier League guide. Everything else the Indian game covers starts at the cricket in India hub.

Sources and method

Dismissal, catch and stumping counts, innings kept, career spans and maximum dismissals in an innings come from ESPNcricinfo's Statsguru career fielding records for India Women in women's Tests, women's one-day internationals and women's Twenty20 internationals, read on 27 August 2026.

Statsguru separates catches taken behind the stumps from catches taken in the field where the ball-by-ball record allows. The one-day figures above use that split, which is why Yastika Bhatia appears with 18 one-day dismissals rather than the 24 her raw fielding total shows: six of her catches were taken in the field, not behind the stumps. For Tests and Twenty20 internationals the split is not published in the view used, so those columns are the player's full dismissal total from matches in which she kept; for every keeper on this page other than Yastika Bhatia and Anagha Deshpande the two figures are identical anyway.

Stumping shares and dismissals-per-innings rates are my arithmetic on the published columns. The format totals in the stumpings-versus-catches table are sums of the keeper rows above, so they cover the keepers listed and not any keeper whose figures fall below the display cut-off of the ranked lists — a handful of single-match keepers are therefore missing, and the shares should be read as very close rather than exact.

Keepers are named in full where the full name could be confirmed against an authoritative source and in the records' own initial form where it could not. Descriptions of which bowlers a keeper stood up to are drawn from the bowling records of the same period rather than from any published fielding breakdown by bowler.

Records of this kind move with every series, and no figure on this page has been estimated or rounded.